January 2009
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2 black city workers claim bias in lawsuit
Vernon Clark and Dwight Ott, Philadelphia Inquirer – Two black employees at the city’s trash transfer center in Roxborough have sued the city for discrimination, claiming their supervisor assigned blacks a separate bathroom and reserved a water cooler for white workers only. The suit by Gibson Trowery of the 7600 block of Horrocks Street in [...]
Davidson County sheriff spoke at white supremacist dinner
Chris Echegaray, The Tennessean – Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall was a guest speaker for a white supremacist group that condemns immigration, warns against interracial relationships and works to preserve the country’s “cultural and racial integrity.” Hall spoke about his department’s 287(g) program, which allows deputies to help enforce federal immigration law, at a Nov. [...]
Homeless youth perceptions vary by race
A study of 205 homeless youth in San Francisco showed whites and African-Americans have starkly different experiences on the streets, researchers said. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, said while the two groups of homeless youth occupied the same geographic spaces, they seemed to inhabit very different worlds. Senior study author Dr. Colette [...]
Once-segregated SC beach town fights to survive
Every day she can, Jannie Isom walks a couple of hundred yards from her home for some of the best Atlantic views along the 60 miles of beach that make up South Carolina’s Grand Strand. Not a single building obstructs the shore as she strolls the three blocks of Ocean Boulevard that parallel the water. [...]
Paris, Texas, race relations dialogue turns into dispute
Howard Witt, Chicago Tribune – Ten days into a new American era, a hundred white and black citizens of this deeply polarized east Texas town tried their hand at the kind of racial reconciliation heralded by the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama, gathering for a frank community dialogue on the long-taboo topic of race. [...]
